Abstract-book for county records, &amp;c.



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ABSTRACT BUOK atm/a J. E. LUTZ.

POR COUNTY RECORDS, aw.

PATENTED FEB. 34, 1903.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 18, 1902.

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l UNTTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

vJOHN E. LUTZ, OF VERNON, TEXAS.

ABSTRACT-BOOK FOR COUNTY RECORDS, SLC.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 719,481, dated February 3, 1 903. Application filed July 18, 1902. Serial No. 116 ,096. (No model.)

T0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN E. LUTZ, a citizen of the United States, residing at Vernon, in the county of Wilbarger and State of Texas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Abstract-Books for County Records, dac. and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to an improved book leaf or page for abstracting county and like records, and has for its object the production of a leaf or page arranged toireceive entries from county records in a manner to greatly facilitate the Work and present in concise form and intelligent arrangement all entries affecting the titles to State, Territorial, and other lands.

The nature of the invention will be readily com prehended, reference being had to the following speciiication, description of the details of construction, manner of use, and resultant advantages, andV to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure lis a View of a leaf or page em-4 ployed for keeping county records. Fig. 2 is a view of the leaf or page employed for taking off from the county records each and every instrument affecting the particular land. Fig. 3 is a View of a similar leaf or page with entries of instruments thereon affecting a town lot.

Referring to the drawings by letter, and first to Fig. 1, A denotes the leaf or page adapted for the convenient entry of data for keeping a county record. The page is crosssectioned by horizontal and vertical lines, providing spaces for the entry of the name or names of the grantee and grantor, the amount and nature of the consideration passed, the date, and kind of instrument, date and nature of acknowledgment, name of officer taking acknowledgment, record-date, and booknumber. An opposite page (not shown) is provided for a full description of the land and transfer and for defects, if any, in the deed. or transfer or in the acknowledgment.

B, Fig. 2, designates the page for abstracting from county records. At the top of the page is a space c, bounded by lines, for the entry of a brief description of the property abstracted. Below the page is cross sectioned by Vertical and horizontal lines, forming spaces d d, each subdivided to provide a small space e for numbers. The spaces d d are arranged in parallel horizontal rows, all the spaces being consecutively numbered, the numbers referring to the particular recordbooks from which the abstractsare taken. The numbers in the spaces d, which are shown relativeiylarge, relate to the page of the deedrecords and in practice are entered in preferably black ink, While the other numbers and abbreviations, which are shown relatively small, are entered in an ink of diiferent color-- as, for instance, red. In the abbreviations employed, .I. stands for j udgment-record, Mg for mortgage, D. O. M. for district-court minutes, J P. C. for justice-of the-peace court, 13. T. for back taxes,

P. C. for probate court, M. L. for mechanics lien, rbc. In the space numbered 6, for instance, the numbers 44,,289, and 375 are pages of book 6 of the deed records, and J-177 stands for book 6, judgment-record, page 177.

C, Fig. 3, denotes a page for abstracting county records with entriesthereon affecting the title of a town lot. The page is an exact counterpart of page B as to the arrangement of spaces and numbers and other matter, and the manner of Y entry of the booknumbers is precisely the same as that above described with reference to said page B.

By my invention the work of abstracting is very greatly facilitated. Each abstract-page is provided with sufficient numbered squares to enable entries from all record-books containing data as to title, regardless of the number. WVhile I have shown on one page fortyeight spaces and on the other forty, obviously these spaces may be increased in number to any desired extent. Obviously, also, these pages may be employed for abstracting from land and property records of any character, and the specific illustrations are therefore not to be regarded as a limitation. The nature of the entries not only enables the ab stract data to be presented in a concise and very intelligible manner, but insures compactness in the books containing the pages and materially reduces the number thereof IOO compared with the number of books necesl with the numbers of the record-books and sary to abstracting by other methods. each containing abstracts from Lthe corre- I claim as my inventionsponding record-books. In combination with a series of numbered In testimony whereof I afiix mysignature 5 county and like record books, of a page for in presence of two witnesses. abstracting records therefrom having a space at its top and horizontal and Vertical lines JOHN E LUTZ forming Vertical columns and horizontal rows Witnesses: of rectangular spaces, said rectangular spaces R. T. STUART, 1o being consecutively numbered in accordance l E. J. JONES. 

